AOL uses Tomcat for all Solr deployments. Our load balancers use a ping query to put a box back into rotation.
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org>wrote: > Netflix uses Tomcat throuought and they tail the log to figure out whether > it has started, except they look for a message from Solr to see whether > Solr is ready to go to work. > > wunder > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lajos [mailto:la...@protulae.com] > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 1:35 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Advantages of different Servlet Containers > > Just go for Tomcat. For all its problems, and I should know having used > it since it was originally JavaWebServer, it is perfectly capable of > handling high-end production environments provided you tune it > correctly. We use it with our customized Solr 1.3 version without any > problems. > > Lajos > > > Simon Wistow wrote: > > I know that the Solr FAQ says > > > > "Users should decide for themselves which Servlet Container they > > consider the easiest/best for their use cases based on their > > needs/experience. For high traffic scenarios, investing time for tuning > > the servlet container can often make a big difference." > > > > but is there anywhere that lists some of the variosu advantages and > > disadvantages of, say, Tomcat over Jetty for someone who isn't current > > with the Java ecosystem? > > > > Also, I'm currently using Jetty but I've had to do a horrific hack to > > make it work under init.d in that I start it up in the background and > > then tail the output waiting for the line that says the SocketConnector > > has been started > > > > while [ '' = "$(tail -1 $LOG | grep 'Started SocketConnector')" ] ; > > do > > sleep 1 > > done > > > > There's *got* to be a better way of doing this, right? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.14.2/2408 - Release Date: 10/01/09 > 18:23:00 > > > > > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
